4.5 5 stars These are the lollipop ladies, with there severed heads on pikes, shepherding me across these lost and lonely highways and into your arms tonight There s something you should know about me I LOVE everything Nick Cave related He is by far my favourite musician and, his poetry and performance continuously leaves me awestruck So of course I bought this book, or should I say epic poem tour journal overall genius, as soon as I saw it in stores I absolutely love the voice of Nick Cave in t [...]

No actual sick bag was used to produce at least this version of the book What you get are pictures of barf bags from various airlines complete with poetry.Kind of a cleaver idea to produce Mr Cave s words to his poetry in such an original manner If you like Nick Cave or are interested in his work than this is worth it The Book is white cloth in a black clam shell box and subtitled For Motion Discomfort.See it here thesickbagsong unlimited Listen to Nick Cave s reading hare youtube watch v qoLEj [...]

The Sick Bag Song charts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2014 North American Tour, and it a fantastic mixture of prose, poetry, and general Nick Cave ness The book itself is stunning a white dust jacket less hardback made to look like an airplane sick bag, and photos of each of the sick bags that Nick Cave scrawled on throughout the tour, followed by the expanded version of the free verse that came from these scrawls.I could hear Nick Cave s voice speak singing every line as I read through this book [...]

On the afternoon Cave releases his astonishing new song Jesus Alone a haunting lament for a recent loss, I flick through this epic poem and relish in the warped humour, offbeat poetry, and play with form a quality that elevates his music from the drear pockets of elder statesman rock.

The tour diary is a special kind of rock n roll memoir the account of work a day rock n roll filtered through equal parts honesty and exhaustion along with the general surreality of a rock star being herded from city to city.The Sick Bag Song is set during Nick Cave The Bad Seeds 2014 tour of the US and Canada, as Nick travels from city to city, performs, tries to call home, considers his influences, his past and his future It makes for a good companion piece to his film 20,000 Days on Earth, eq [...]

Can I give it than five stars I feel like I just got punched in the gut by a book, and afterwards it patted me on the back, sat me down on the edge of the mighty Ohio River, and lit a cigarette for me It will all be okay.

Musings, poems, and hallucinogenic snippets of travelogue like journal entries make up the majority of this for fans only piece from the always beguiling Nick Cave I don t think the casual listener does he even have any casual listeners will find much of value here, but those who are ignited by the electric prose in his songs stories folk tales should enjoy these subtle yet crudely vivid meanderings.

Very likely one of my new favorite books Nick s thoughts always strike a chord with me, but the universal themes of distance, risk, anxiety, love, and the creative drug are both useful and arrestingly communicated I found myself taking pictures of almost every other page to save a part to my phone for later use and read it all in one sitting on my porch The man s a visionary.

The Sick Bag Song is a collection of free form writing developed from notes and scribbles that Cave committed to the back of airline barf bags while 1st classing it across America on tour A blur of the great theaters and halls and the finest hotels from one coast to the other in 2014, at the commercial height of a career in music that has now spanned 3 and a half decades Some prose, some poetry, some drawings or diagrams, very little is a straight journal entry or specific descriptions about gig [...]

You re not flying, you re falling There is a subtle difference in outcome The Nine Primary Bedevilments of Creativity are Procrastination through fear.Procrastination through indecision.Procrastination through perfectionism.Procrastination through waiting for inspiration.Procrastination through chaos and misadcenture.Procrastination through raising a family.Procrastination through superstition and religion.Procrastination through madness and suicide.The Nine Secondary Bedevilments of Creativity [...]

When I was a little child, I didn t know that those paper bags in the aeroplanes were sick bags I thought we could put food in them or some personal stuff at that age toys perhaps One day we were flying and a girl just got sick of overcoming the gravity and puked in that bag I was very shocked and at that moment I comprehended that those clean and nice bags was meant for something that disgusts us.Despite my childish disappointment, now I feel kind of glad to have thought that those bags could h [...]

A great and poetic commentary on love, music, art, creation, muse and inspiration 5 5 from me 21st of May 2016 After re reading this is still as good as the first read, if not better You always miss something the first time, and I m so glad I gave this another read through 18th of November 2016

Do you feel obsessed with Nick Cave Good This book helps you to satisfy your voyuer urge to get into Nick s head or even his bed You stand on the stage with him and join him by his physical and mental journey You ll probably end up with the feeling that you want Nick to be your friend and will re read the book and play every song mention therein couple of times Or it s just me, whatever.

I m a fan of Nick Cave s music but this book fell completely flat for me The self indulgence of it annoyed me as did the weird way he wrote about people of color he has visions of a black woman jumping off a bridge a few times and seems really hung up on one size fits all east Asian and indigenous American mysticism.

Enjoyed it Not sure I completely understood it all Maybe it was meant to be obscure Yes, I think that s it He s on tour He can not get ahold of his wife He is frustrated from missing and longing her THAT, I get Unique approach.

It isn t Nick Cave s third novel instead a mostly non fiction narrative in verse but it is his third narrative book, and probably the best of the three And The Ass Saw The Angel has abominably beautiful prose but the narrative is static for hundreds of pages, clearly the work of a great poet who did not understand how to write a novel, with character arc and motion The Death of Bunny Munro has a mobile plot, but it s really quite a stupid book of bad jokes and irrelevance.The Sick Bag Song, how [...]

I really enjoyed this perhaps I wasn t expecting to, still not sure what my expectation was actually s funny and the debt of influence from Leonard Cohen is acknowledged on what feels like every second page It s a sly mix of memoir, epic narrative poem and travel diary Cave s having a lot of fun playing with the myth of Nick Cave lately And it suits him.

Nick Cave s wild, dancing poetry interweaves with his memories of the Bad Seeds 2014 tour My brother and I saw him in Vancouver and it was a top three, all time experience His sick bag write up of Vancouver was good but I wish he d talked about humping my brother s face during Stagger Lee.Audacious in its imagery and surprisingly lucid in its narrative, this book is a must read.

I went to the concert when Nick Cave toured and was writing this impressionistic book He wrote a little essay on each city he stayed Of course, naturally, my favorite essay was about New Orleans, where I live, which he described in vampiric way, but how can t you